Feedback: Readers' blood pressure rises over lack of Medicaid vote

Jun. 24, 2013

Last week, the state Senate left for its summer break and did not vote on a bill to expand Medicaid in Michigan, a bill that Gov. Rick Snyder has been strongly pushing. Snyder lashed out at the Senate. Here’s what readers had to say about the issue in letters to the editor and comments on Freep.com.

He has gone along with the extreme right-wing legislation they’ve sent him, while stating, “It wasn’t on my agenda.” But he has not been able to get them to approve the crucial items that actually were on his agenda — the health care exchange, the new Detroit-Windsor bridge, Medicaid expansion, to name a few on a long list. Leadership? Oh, no, that is a ridiculous and empty claim.

Marilynn Bachorik

Dearborn

When they wanted to move legislation quickly, the Republicans in the Legislature jammed 320 bills through in a few days during last December’s lame-duck session. Now they cannot manage to get one through? This is very sad.

Lee Tilson

While I applaud his insistence on the Medicaid expansion, I question his motives. He has signed far too many punitive pieces of legislation that have hurt the poor, seniors and a large portion of Michigan residents for me to want to call my reps and make his case.

Nehrys Kira

I have spoken to my state representative and senator, Gov. Rick Snyder, and I thanked them for stopping this train wreck you call Medicaid expansion.